They are desperate to be cool, it’s so cringe.

  • @GluWu@lemm.ee
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    1992 months ago

    The thing they all share is that they are deeply unloved. Trump, musk, bezos, zuck, none of them have healthy loving families. They have noons they can genuinely connect with. And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need. But it never does, so they just keep going not realizing the path they chose doesn’t end anywhere near what they desire. Money will never buy love and peace.

    • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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      1152 months ago

      And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need.

      If that was all it was, then I’d feel sorry for them. No, they’re trying to fulfill that need by being Great Men of History with Mighty Plans, but their Mighty Plans are all terrible, because they’re horrible people.

      • @o1011o@lemmy.world
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        452 months ago

        Yeah, I think it’s a mistake to imagine that these are good people who just need a little love. There are literally hundreds of millions of people who aren’t getting enough love for proper human flourishing and it’s not like that turned them all into fascists. The kind of evil exhibited by these people must be attributed to a fundamental enjoyment of the suffering of others.

    • @overload@sopuli.xyz
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      182 months ago

      I wouldn’t challenge this view for Musk, Bezos, Trump. But Zuck gives me more of a “reformed (now married) incel that comes from an otherwise normal family environment vibe”. His marriage seems at least typical, likely loving etc.

      His product happens to be the most harmful for democracy and I consider him equal for worst of the bunch as a result, but I think it’s explained by corporate/personal greed and being out of touch with reality.

      • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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        12 months ago

        “The average American, I think has, I think it’s fewer than three friends. Three people that they consider friends.”

        This is Zuckerberg, claiming it’s normal not just to have only 3 friends, but fewer than 3. This is telling on yourself even more than “Women’s orgasms aren’t real because no woman I’ve ever been with has had an orgasm.”

        If he counts his wife in that list of “fewer than 3 friends”, how many friends does he actually have? I get that being ultra rich means that often you can’t be sure who’s actually your friend, and who’s just there for the money. But, still, he should at least be able to count a handful of friends. I’ve known my 2 best friends since before I was 5 years old. Surely if Zuck had a normal childhood, he should have people who were his friends long before he got rich, who he can be sure aren’t just there for his money. If he doesn’t, it strongly suggests he was either a pretty awful kid, or he led a really weird life growing up and was isolated from anybody who could have become a friend.

    • @db2@lemmy.world
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      82 months ago

      not realizing the path they chose doesn’t end anywhere near what they desire

      It’ll end where they deserve though. Alone, despised and empty. No amount of money or stupid blue checkmarks will ever change that.

    • LupusBlackfur
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      72 months ago

      Money will never buy love and peace.

      True enough.

      But, in the broken psyches of the ones you’ve mentioned, it buys perfectly serviceable alternatives which they can convince themselves actually does make them happy.

      They are so broken that broken solutions actually work for them…

      🤷‍♂️ 🤡 🖕

      • @Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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        132 months ago

        Don’t try and downplay the affect of connecting with noons on the human psyche. They are an evil scourge and should be eradicated. This is exactly the kind of thing a noon would post.